Presented at 6th International Conference on Advanced Lithium Batters for Automobile Applications (ABAA6) - Sep 2013 -- Demonstration of drying of water based Cathode coatings used in Li battery processes. Fast, Uniform drying can be achieved in minutes, which could potentially save energy, foot print size and cost.

Presented at 6th International Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automobile Applications (ABAA6) - Sep 2013 -- Presentation of a belt furnace with a capability to reach 1100°C and high degree of uniformity, which could be useful for chemical powder processing of battery materials.

Circuits Assembly Magazine - April 2013 - BTU's Fred Dimock discusses using CpK to measure oven repeatability. The article includes an overview of simple statistical concepts and how their application to SMT reflow.

Presented at IEEE- June 2011 -- BTU's solar applications group report on a method of co-firing using very high ramp rates and rapid cooling. The study addresses the requirements for aluminum BSF formation.

Presented at IEEE - 2010 --- Rapid firing of screen-printed mtallization is a critical step in the manufacture of crystalline solar cells. In this paper BTU's solar applications engineers investigate the changes in the structure of fired contacts caused by variations in firing parameters.

Presented at IEEE - 2010 --- There is growing interest in adopting in-line diffusion on an industrial scale. In this paper an old concern of metal contamination from conveyor belts is explored using SIMS analysis.

SECAP - 2005 --- A collection of papers on wafer level packaging and flip chip bumping covering a range of topics including plating, UBM, photolithography, and lead-free processing. As a member of SECAP, BTU contributed a paper on Next Generation Wafer Bump Reflow Processing.

Industrial Heating Magazine - Sept 2002 --- A continuous furnace is ideal for processes requiring high production volumes, process consistency,and precision control. This overview discusses some of the newer temperature and atmosphere capabilities of continuous furnaces and addresses the various components that make up a continuous furnace.

Circuits Assembly - Dec 2001 --- First of a three-part series on using SPC to improve the reflow process. In this article analytical tools are used to determine how all oven parameters are operating at the time an optimum oven profile is established.

Circuits Assembly - Jan 2002 --- This is the second article in the three-part seiries on using SPC in the reflow process. This article describes the types of SPC tools that can be used to better understand the relationship between processing steps and how SPC, properly implemented, can track quality, monitor process deviations and increase yields.